Sash-fastener.



No. 766,689. PATENTED AUG. 2, 1904. W. GOODGELL.

SASH PASTE-NEE.

APPLICATION FILED DEO.5, 1903.

NOMOBFA N V 6 9- i .15 n L z E9 69 j NITED STATES Patented August 2, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

SASH-FASTEN ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 766,689, dated August 2, 1904.

Application filed December 5, 1903. Serial No. 183,924. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM GoononLL, a citizen of the United States, residing at San Bernardino, in the county of San Bernardino and State of California, have invented new and useful Improvements in \Vindow-Sash Fasteners, of which the following is a specification.

My invention has relation to Window-sash holders and fasteners; and the object is to provide a device of the kind indicated and for the purpose mentioned which is of an improved and simplified make, which is reliable in operation, sightly in appearance, easily applied in operative position, durable in use, and which will lock and hold both sashes in any desired position.

The improvements embody a slidable leg or bar terminating at one end in an engaging portion to contact the side rail of the up per sash, a guide secured to the lower sash to hold the leg or bar in operative position, so that when the leg or bar is projected inward the inner end of the leg or bar carrying the engaging means will press against the side rail of the upper sash, while at the same time the reaction causes a pressure in the opposite direction against the lower sash, an operating device for actuating and projecting the leg or bar inward and holding the same in position, so that the forward or outward pressure on the upper sash and the resultant backward or inward pressure on the lower sash will bind both sashes by friction to the sashways or grooves against movement until the pressure is released by withdrawing the leg or bar.

The invention consists, further, in constructing said leg of sections, one of which is provided with a threaded socket and the other of which is threaded to engage said socket, so that the length of the leg or bar may be adjusted according to the thickness of the lower sash, as may be required to secure the desired pressure upon projecting the leg or bar inward, the essential feature of the whole device being the locking and holding of both sashes in any desired position by frictional pressure.

I have fully and clearly illustrated my improved device in the annexed drawings, to

I be taken as a part of this specification, and wherein like parts appearing in both illustra tions are designated by the same referencenotations and reference being had to the drawings; but it is to be noted that in these drawings I have illustrated the device as having the projecting power applied by means of a canrlever only, which I think is the best and most effective means, but the power may be applied by means of a thumb-screw or a pivotal lever or other means. Also the leg or bar is illustrated with a vertical shoe at the inner end thereof, the purpose of such shoe being to present a larger surface for contact with the side rail of the upper sash, so that the latter may not be marred by the pressure thereon, but the leg or bar may be formed without a shoe. Also in the drawings the a sleeve, which, I think, is the best means of holding it; but it may be held in position by guide-bars, flanges, hooks, or other suitable means.

In said'drawings, Figure l is a front view of a portion of a window-frame and the sashes therein to which my improved device is operatively applied. Fig. 2 is a view in side elevation, partly in section, of a sash having my fastener and holder applied thereto, also partly in section.

A designates the stile of the window-frame, which is of common construction and provided with sashways or grooves of any wellknown construction in which are operatively arranged a lower sash 2 and an upper sash 3. To the top rail 4: of the lower sash my improved device is secured and disposed for operation. The device as thus illustrated comprises a suitable guide, which is shown in the drawings as consisting of a sleeve 5, having a flat under surface or plate to set on the top rail of the lower sash, as indicated in the drawings, which under surface or plate extends along said top rail a sufficient distance to allow it to be securely fastened thereto with screws or nails and is formed with a rigid depending bar or flange 6, which is fas: tened to the front face of said top rail with screws or nails, the part being thus held firmly I to the rail of the sash against movement, sublegor bar is illustrated as held in position by' stantially as seen in the drawings. Within the sleeve 5 is slidably disposed the leg or bar 7, the inner end of which is provided with an engaging or impinging face, shown as consisting of a vertical shoe 8, the face of which shoe is adapted to engage against the side rail of the upper sash when the device is operated to lock thesashes. On bar 7 is a threaded socket 9, wherein engages the threaded stem 10 of a plug 11, as shown in Fig. 2 of the drawings. The outer end of the sleeve 5 is formed with oppositely-positioned bearingears 12, wherein is placed a bearing-pin 13, on which between said ears is pivotally mounted an operating device, shown as consisting of a cam 14:, so positioned on its bearings as to bear against the end of the plug 11 and press the shoe into frictional contact with the side rail of the upper sash. The cam is provided with an operating-handle 15, by means of which it is moved on its hearings to lock or release the sashes.

It'will be seen that by the construction and arrangement of the plug 11 and bar 7 as shown in the drawings and above described, a locking-bar is provided which is formed of two sections, which by virtue of their screwthreaded connection are rendered adjustable with relation to each other in order that the length of said bar may be regulated to suit the device to sashes of diflerent thicknesses or for determining the length of movement to be given to said bar.

It will now be perceived that by pushing the plug inward by actuating the handle the shoe will be forced against the side rail of the upper sash, pressing that rail firmly against I the outer side of the sashway or groove in which that sash slides, while at the same time, by reaction, the side rail of the lower sash will be pressed firmly against the inner side of the sashway or groove in which the lower sash slides and that thus both sashes will, by friction, be locked either in their closed position or at such positions as they may have been moved to, and that they will remain thus locked until the forceful contact of the shoe is released by turning the cam, so as to remove the locking pressure.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new is 1. A window-sash lock and holder, comprising a sleeve, a leg or bar slidably disposed within the sleeve, and a cam journaled in the outer end of the sleeve, to bear on the outer end of said leg or bar.

2. A window-sash lock and holder, comprising a sleeve, formed with bearing-ears at its outer end, a shoe having a leg slidablydisposed in the sleeve, and formed with a threaded socket, a plug in the base of the sleeve and provided with a threaded stem to engage in the socket in the leg of the shoe, and a cam pivotally mounted between the bearing-ears on the sleeve and engaging the plug.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM GOODGELL Witnesses:

HENRY GooDoELL, R. B. GooDoELL. 

